Halloween . . .

The Friday before Halloween we were invited to our friends' house for some Halloween festivities.  There were tons of things to do.  We decorated foam pumpkins, ate yummy food, saw bunches of kids in their cute Halloween costumes . . . 

and decorated and ate Halloween cookies, which was probably Riley's favorite part!  Yum!  By the way, that isn't a growth on my neck, it is my witch nose, which Riley kept pulling off and wanting to try on himself.

I made some Halloween cupcakes for the girls that I visit teach and shared one with Riley.

He loved it!

First time helping to carve a pumpkin.  Definitely not someone who is afraid of getting dirty.

Just jumped right in there!  Can't wait to do this again next year!

Riley was a lion for Halloween.  He actually kept most of his costume on the whole time we were at truck-or-treat.  Gary was a moto-cross guy, complete with tattoos!

Here's our little munchkin enjoying some well earned truck-or-treating spoils.  He had a great time!

We decorated our car this year for trunk-or-treat.  The picture really didn't turn out very well, but you can see the pumpkin Riley and I carved, and the balloons tied to the rack on top have light sticks in them so they sort of glow.  I also cut streamers from garbage bags and we taped them to the hatch door.  We were pretty proud of how it turned out.

October 13-19, 2010

Last Wednesday for Young Women's we combined with the Young Men to do a "Where's Waldo" activity at the mall.  I was one of the lucky leaders that got to dress up.  Here is my "Where's Waldo" get-up . . .

 I got the dress and (never been worn) shoes from the Salvation Army store, and I couldn't find a grey old-lady wig, so I had to settle for this Napoleon Dynamite wig and glasses set instead.  So pretty!  It was a fun night and we had a lot of kids show up and participate.  Everyone loved my costume, I think I will wear it for Halloween too!

On Thursday Riley and I went to the Puppet Theater at Balboa Park to see "Witch's Brew". 

 It was horrible!!  Incredibly boring and it almost seemed like the puppeteer (I think it was only one lady) was just making in up as she went.  After it was over I thought to myself that I was never going to go there again, but then I talked to another mom when Riley was playing at the park and she said she comes all the time and that was the all time worst one she had seen.  She told me to try again before I decided to veto it all together.  There are some pretty fun sounding ones coming up for the Holiday's so we shall see . . .

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On Saturday we all drove up to Julian, which is a small old mining town up in the mountains, about an hour away.  There are a bunch of novelty shops and while we were there we purchased this pretty hummingbird feeder.  It has been quite a hit with the hummingbirds at our complex.  

 On Monday it was cloudy and rainy, so Riley and I went to the indoor playground at McDonalds.  He loves to make car noises, so this part of the playground was a big hit for him.  He even went down the big kid slide once.  He is so brave!

Yesterday he spend most of the morning wearing the body of his costume and his hat.  In case your couldn't tell from the picture, he is going to be a lion for Halloween.  His costume has three parts, a mane hood, a body with tail, and lion paw slippers.  He doesn't mind the body, and sometimes Gary can get him to wear the hood for a few minutes, but he has never worn the slippers for more than a couple of seconds.  I leave the costume out to try to entice him to try it on, but so far I have only been successful in getting him to wear this part for any length of time.  I definitely need to come up with a back-up-plan-costume.

Photo Overload . . .

We had a ton of pictures on our camera, so I thought I would share . . .

(In no particular order)

Gary got a full-body wetsuit for his birthday, here he is showing how awesome it is going to be!

Riley on his first camping trip to Tanner Flats.  He loves gathering rocks, so he had a great time!

Making a crazy mess in the bathroom, woohoo!

Trying out the tent before the big campout

Enjoying some animal crackers.  Everything tastes better when your camping

Riley is helping me sweep up

Miss Anya!  What a doll

Riley and Daddy at the campout

We stopped on our way home from Salt Lake for a bite to eat

The bumbo is stuck to his butt!  He looks like a purple turtle!

"Nothing bundt cake" for Gary's birthday.  These things taste amazing!

Petting farm animals at Poway Days

Checking out the bears at the San Diego Zoo

Gary gave Riley a sweet mohawk, yeah!

Making a mess of the cupboards

Watching the jets fly by at the Miramar air show

Eating breakfast at the Broken Yolk restaurant

More jets, so amazing!

Watching the fish (Riley calls them "fissss") at the Birch Aquarium

Beautiful tank full of fish at the aquarium

Beautiful vegis waiting to be roasted for dinner, yum!

Whale fountain at the Birch Aquarium

We keep the babies on the second shelf

Minnie Mouse dressed in her Halloween costume at Disneyland

Goofy dress up as a skeleton

Mickey Mouse dressed in his Halloween costume at Disneyland

Jack Skelington and Sally near the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland

He pulled the monitor off of the shelf above his crib and when he finally fell asleep this is how I found him

This is a fountain at Disneyland near Space Mountain.  Riley loved it!

I wore my apron to make dinner the night before and Riley wanted to wear it the next day.  I had to tie the sash around him about six times.

View from the back

Riley hanging 10 at Disney's California Adventure. 

We bought this giant teddy bear at Costco and he LOVES it. Every time he comes into the room he says, "Bear" and gives it a big hug, so cute!

Look at that face

These are glasses from Mr. Potato head, but he likes to have us put them on him, and he really likes having us put them on us.